John A. Meacham

===Prospective memory===

===Prospective memory===

Meacham initiated the study of [[prospective memory]], a research subject in [[cognitive psychology]] and other fields, in the early 1970s. Prospective memory is information with implications for actions to be performed in the future, such as stopping at the store on the way home, and can be distinguished from retrospective memory, concerned solely with recall of information from the past. Meacham was the first to introduce this distinction, along with the term ''prospective memory'', at a University of Rochester colloquium in December 1974 and subsequently at the Chicago meeting of the [[American Psychological Association]] in September 1975.Meacham, J. A., & Leiman, B. (1975). Remembering to perform future actions. Paper presented at the meeting of the American Psychological Association, Chicago, September. Prospective memory received wide attention when [[Ulric Neisser]] included the APA paper in his 1982 [[edited volume]], ''Memory Observed: Remembering in Natural Contexts''.Meacham, J. A., & Leiman, B. Remembering to perform future actions. In U. Neisser (Ed.), ''Memory observed: Remembering in natural contexts''. San Francisco: Freeman, 1982. Pp. 327-336.Interview with Jack Meacham. The language gut reaction. http://scsgrads.blogspot.com/2007/09/interview-with-jack-meacham.html

Meacham initiated the study of [[prospective memory]], a research subject in [[cognitive psychology]] and other fields, in the early 1970s. Prospective memory is information with implications for actions to be performed in the future, such as stopping at the store on the way home, and can be distinguished from [[retrospective memory]], concerned solely with recall of information from the past. Meacham was the first to introduce this distinction, along with the term ''prospective memory'', at a [[University of Rochester]] colloquium in December 1974 and subsequently at the Chicago meeting of the [[American Psychological Association]] in September 1975.Meacham, J. A., & Leiman, B. (1975). Remembering to perform future actions. Paper presented at the meeting of the American Psychological Association, Chicago, September. Prospective memory received wide attention when [[Ulric Neisser]] included the APA paper in his 1982 [[edited volume]], ''Memory Observed: Remembering in Natural Contexts''.Meacham, J. A., & Leiman, B. Remembering to perform future actions. In U. Neisser (Ed.), ''Memory observed: Remembering in natural contexts''. San Francisco: Freeman, 1982. Pp. 327-336.Interview with Jack Meacham. The language gut reaction. http://scsgrads.blogspot.com/2007/09/interview-with-jack-meacham.html

===The loss of wisdom===

===The loss of wisdom===